Closed Captioning

Closed Captioning by Gregory J Downey

This engaging study traces the development of closed captioning-a field that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s from decades-long developments in cinematic subtitling, courtroom stenography, and education for the deaf. Gregory J. Downey discusses how digital computers, coupled with human mental and physical skills, made live television captioning possible. Downey's survey includess the hidden information workers who mediate between live audiovisual action and the production of visual track and written records. His work examines communication technology, human geography, and the place of labor in a technologically complex and spatially fragmented world. Illustrating the ways in which technological development grows out of government regulation, education innovation, professional profit-seeking, and social activism, this interdisciplinary study combines insights from several fields, among them the history of technology, human geography, mass communication, and information studies.

Downey's book provides a through explanation of how the technology developed, and after reading Closed Captioning, you will never again take the technology for granted and you will clearly understand its role as a communication medium-- Susan B. Barnes Technology and Culture 2009 Downey's historical approach sheds light on the origins of innovations born of practical necessity that are driving current media trends. Information Society 2010

Gregory J. Downey is an associate professor in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication and the School of Library & Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology, and Geography, 1850-1950.

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ISBN 13	9780801887109
ISBN 10	0801887100
Titel	Closed Captioning
Autor	Gregory J Downey
Serie	Johns Hopkins Studies In The History Of Technology
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2008-04-21
Seitenanzahl	400
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